The Rowhammer: the Evolution of a Dangerous Attack
Back in 2015, security researchers at Google's Project Zero team demonstrated how to hijack an Intel-compatible PCs running Linux by exploiting the physical...
Pierluigi Paganini
Pierluigi is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group, member of Cyber G7 Workgroup of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor and Director of the Master in Cyber Security at the Link Campus University. He is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at “Cyber Defense Magazine”, Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog “Security Affairs” recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the “The Hacker News” team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines.
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Crooks Exploit Facebook to Spread Crypto-miner Malware
Social networks are a privileged attack vector that could be used by cybercriminals to spread malware to a wide audience.
In the last month's security experts...
How to Steal Windows Login Credentials Abusing the Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol
Hackers, cybercriminals, and cyber spies continuously devise new techniques to improve their attacks, in some cases, these methods are first detected when...
ZLAB MALWARE ANALYSIS REPORT: RANSOMWARE-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORMS
Over the years, the diffusion of darknets has created new illegal business models. Along with classic illegal goods such as drugs and payment card data, other...
All You Need to Know About the Cambridge Analytica Privacy Scandal
The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica is in the middle of one of the biggest privacy scandals of the last years; the firm has used data...
Which Are the Most Exploited Flaws by Cybercriminal Organizations?
Which are the weapons in the arsenal of cybercrime gangs? Which are the most exploited vulnerabilities?
To respond to these questions let's analyze the annual...
Memcrashed: The Dangerous Trend Behind the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever
In November 2017, a group of researchers provided a macroscopic characterization of the DoS ecosystem; they shared their findings at the AMC Internet Measurement...
Global Cost of Cybercrime on the Rise
Cyber-criminal activities worldwide continue to increase, in many cases, organized crime rings operate worldwide, and their profits are very high.
The consolidation...
Cryptocurrency mining botnets on the rise
The peaks reached by the values of principal cryptocurrencies is attracting criminal organizations, the number of cyber-attacks against the sector continues...
The Role of Technology in Modern Terrorism
Technology is a foundation of modern society, it governs its dynamics, and therefore, it is normal that also the terrorism will benefit from it.
We are living...